Monday, February 19, 2007

Early this morning, I had a call from a recruiter who, I knew had worked with another consultancy,say XYZ consultants, last year for 3 months. She had called me a couple of times earlier too..to refer a classmate of hers. Today she called to seek a favour. She had applied for a job in a tier III company and was on the verge of getting the offer. The prospective employer wanted to check reference, and this lady wanted me to vouch

1 that she had worked for XYZ for 9 months -at a certain inflated salary-and2. mention that XYZ has since closed-and so it wd be difficult for me to give them too many details

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As i remember, it was the companies themselves who started this fake certificate thing: One of my friends on joining this "very reputed" MNC tech firm was sent on an international project by showing him as an expert on SAP with 2 years experience while my friend had not worked on SAP till then!

During the Body shopping era , companies like Satyam,Wipro , patni etc were faking resumes to place guys abroad..Now under pressure from US Cleints ( specially after all the accounting frauds,9/11 ), these companies have started these back ground checks and teaching people values of ethics,

True In IT industry Many Top Level companies having junk Fake Resumes with expierence, they are getting projects by projecting these resumes to bid the projects and thier headcounts is in top list. So the root itself from the companies when they are in verge of getting projects. There is a scarcity of Manpower in India that is why China is grabbing the market.

So the Check referrals loose good technical persons and even loose thier head counts of too much probing of candidates even though they are good assest for the Top MNCs.